Favorite Poker Quotes

[dannystanks]

“The beautiful thing about poker is, everyone thinks they know how to play.” C. Moneymaker

 

[Whaevoz]

"Stay out of games in which there are fish. They never know when they're supposed to bet, slow up the game, and louse things up generally." -- John Moss

 

[Whaevoz]

"You can't bluff someone who doesn't care what happens at the table." -- Joe Mantegna (Gambling House)

 

[Whaevoz]

"The number of slobs you’ll see in a poker tournament defies any rational explanation." -- Phil Gordon

 

[Whaevoz]

"Where the rules of the game do not allow you to win, English gentlemen change the rules." -- Harold Joseph Laski (British political scientist and political theorist)

 

[Whaevoz]

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." -- Andrew S. Grove

 

[Whaevoz]

"Gambling ain’t for lazy people." -- Robert B. Parker

 

[Whaevoz]

"Card games? The only game I know anything about is that game---let me see---I don’t know what the name is, but you put one card down on the table and four face up, and you bet." -- Harry S Truman

 

[Whaevoz]

"When your opponent has all the aces, there is only one option left: flip the table over." -- Dean Martin (Robin and the 7 Gangsters)

 

[Whaevoz]

"He played shirtfront poker, enjoying it immensely, completely lost in loving it, in matching his brain against the disembodied brains against him. It was true poker, hard monotonous unthrilling. . . ." -- "From Here to Eternity"

 

[Whaevoz]

"Buddy we here to gamble" -- Sammy Farha

 

[Whaevoz]

"You can’t think you’ve played well if you lose consistently." -- Mickey Appleman

 

[Whaevoz]

“Losing is like smoking. It’s habit forming.” -- Puggy Pearson

 

[Whaevoz]

"When you are big-stacked, playing your stack becomes more important than playing your cards." -- Neil Timothy

 

[Whaevoz]

"If my daddy saw me losing to these joker's he'd climb out of his grave and beat me to death!" -- Doyle Brunson

 

[Whaevoz]

"If someone asks you if you like your food, answer. If someone asks you if you like your cards, don't answer." -- Tommy Angelo

 

[Whaevoz]

"I poker-playerishly detected in his eyes the momentary flicker of an unexpected reverse." -- John Lanchester

 

[Wega85]

all you need is a chip and a chair

 

[Whaevoz]

"Bluffing is most effective when done sporadically; bluff too often, and you'll blow your credibility." -- Daniel Negreanu

 

[Whaevoz]

"A poker player has to be lucky---in the same way that Warren Buffett gets lucky playing the stock market year after year." -- Phil Gordon

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker is the only game for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's hand is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork?" -- W. Somerset Maugham

 

[Whaevoz]

"A great player knows that if he doesn't make a call here and a call there, the money he has left after saving those calls is the same as winning a pot." -- T.J. Cloutier

 

[Whaevoz]

“I don’t play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I’m drawing at two different flushes.” -- Amarillo Slim

 

[Whaevoz]

"Good No-Limit players bluff four or five times as often as good players in Limit games." -- Doyle Brunson

 

[Like2Play2]

"People think mastering the skill is the hard part, but they're wrong....The trick to poker is mastering the luck"
Mastering the Luck. I agree with that.